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Subject: Re: [9fans] X on Plan 9
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:02:16 -0400
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geoff collyer ported the unix tools for palm communication.
perhaps he'll pipe up about posting them.

i have a native set (that presents the whole thing as a file
system) that has serial communication and database
manipulation dead on but i got into trouble keeping various
views of the data consistent when one changed.  i know
how to do it, just haven't finished it.

similarly, i have a messaging-only icq client i wrote
three years ago.  i have enough documentation about
the icq spec, and the aim spec is public anyway.  i think
it would be a great demonstration of the plan 9 approach
to tool building to make an underlying file server and
then build an acme interface (and perhaps others, like
a text one) on top of that.

if anyone wants to hack on either of these i'd be happy
to give them out, lend advice, etc.  i just don't have time
to write side programs anymore.  i'm hopeful that will change
a little in the fall, as i'm finishing many long-running (multiple
year) projects this spring.

russ